"We used racing to stop killings." The L.A. Times examines Big Willie Robinson, both the myth and the man

Daniel StrohlAug 11 2019

The Brotherhood (Photo via Los Angeles Times).

If you haven’t been paying attention to Daniel Miller’s “Larger Than Life” docuseries on Big Willie Robinson for the Los Angeles Times, it’s worth diving into. Robinson, his wife Tomiko, and the Brotherhood of Street Racers were never unknowns either in the drag racing community or around Los Angeles, but Miller – via an ambitious mix of traditional reporting, community reporting, and mixed-media publishing – has pieced together the story of a couple determined to bring peace to riot-torn Los Angeles, the way Los Angeles gravitates to and consumes extraordinary characters like the Robinsons, and the legacy Big Willie and Tomiko left behind.